Chase Wedding

Love is

Mark and Madi, you both are here because of your love for one another and the people gathered around you are here to affirm that love, to support that love and to cheer you on as you establish in stone that love.

However for both of you, you must define that love that you are setting to hold to. As you say your vows and give each other tokens of love you must choose to define what love is every single day.

Now love changes and altought for some that seems like a hard thing. Nobody likes change, but it is always needed. Nobody remains as the person they were when they had entered into this world.

Your love for one another must change as you both grow with one another.

Listen to what 1 Corinthians 13 says:

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 NIV

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Lets start with patience, love must be patient but some days you will need more patience. Every time you visit the greenhouse Mark you’ll need some patience, or Madi a trip to Rona might stretch your patience. You’ll both have to make a choice on how much patience to give, and that choice will reflect your love for one another.

Your kindness will need to flex as you grow in your love for one another. Here is a chance to grow in kindness, when you get home from work the first words you say is “how was your day” not, “What is for dinner”.

If you treat each other with kindness your love will grow, however you must adapt and choose to be kinder on rough and stormy days. Choosing to be more and more for each other.

Now on to envy boasting and pride, two pieces that go hand in hand. If you choose to envy others it will reflect in how you treat each other, and if you choose to boast your other half will take notice. If you are to love each other in a growing way, then I urge you to be humble in your heart. There is nothing deserved, there is nothing worth boasting over besides love. Nothing is better then that. So let your envy be how much you love each other, let you boast about how much you love.

Now to verse 5,

1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

this is all thinks that are truth in marriage,

Mark and Madi this step you take today, you both are telling the other person that you put them first.

that you would not dishonor the other, nor would you want to bring your self to a greater place then the other.

So when life becomes a little harder this too becomes harder but still needs to be true. There are easy roads in life where being quick to anger just feels right, but in the end it never is.

Love is hard some times, it take a clear mind to make the choices the show love.

My call is to show love to each other always, these have been some ways to and some ways to leave the opposiste of love.

However the Apostle Paul puts it clearly to what is love in verses 6 and 7,

1 Corinthians 13:6–7 NIV

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Loves does these things.

Rejoices in truth, the firm things in life are these truths. With the ultimate of these truths being Christ and His first love for both of you.

protecting and trusting, hoping and persevering are both calls to you, but they are only callings because of Christ who had and still has these callings for both of you.

This writing is a character summary of what Jesus would do to show love for both of you. That he would feel from wrong showings of love to cling to the best and most loving ways for you.

So Mark and Madi, my calling to you as you step into Marriage is to take that character analysis, take a goal of showing love that is Perfect, that has no flaws and follow it.

Perfect is unachievable, everyone knows that. However if you make it your goal, you will work awful hard to show each-other a perfect love.